- Patch #333143 by justinrandell: cleaning up the Drupal bootstrap code, removing bootstrap flag in system table.

- Patch #319406 by AlexisWilke, Dave Reid, Damien Tournoud, kbahey:  should only be cleared in the parent watchdog() call.

- Patch #280934 by pwolanin, swentel, et al: harden session regeneration.  It took a while, but it comes with tests and extra features now.

#302438 by maartenvg and cwgordon7: Only show the 'queued for approval' message for non-administrators.

#315801 by Rob Loach, Grugnoh2, mfer and dmitrig01: Add a hook_js_alter() to modify JavaScript being printed to the page.

- Patch #335614 by Damien Tournoud: getActiveConnection() and getConnection() were broken when  was not found. Now with tests\!

- Patch #308834 by c960657: move setting of magic_quotes_runtime out of settings.php because (i) we don't want a user to change it and (ii) it gets executed a bit earlier in the Drupal bootstrap.

- Patch #323474 by Dave Reid and catch: hook_boot() was not invoked on uncached page views if cache mode is aggressive.

- Patch #330674 by catch: we can eliminate one database query because we have the parent node cached anyway.

- Patch #293506 by catch, pwolanin, foripepe: added missing tests for the taxonomy module.  New tests include tests for empty vocabulary overview, deleting a vocabulary, weights, etc. Also refactored some of the existing test to make them more crisp and readable.

- Patch #337660 by dmitrig01: usability improvement - show a preview for the Powered By Drupal block.

- Patch #293370 by maartenvg, swentel, et al: block sorting fails if more than 20 blocks are present.

- Patch #335385 by Dave Reid: fixed maxlength of path alias fields to be consistent with the database.